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Introduction

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The analysis of avalaible bibliographic resources is essential for carrying out any research task. This type of analysis is denominated bibliometric analysis. In a bibliometric analysis is used all avalaible mathematical and statistical methodology to extract data of the existent bibliography about certain research topic and reveal the connections between different “agents” (mainly countries, institutions, journals and authors).

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Bibliographic collection

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WOS Core Collection Field Tags

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General information

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  • Authors per Document: the ratio between the total number of authors and the total number of documents (Authors/Documents).

  • Co-Authors per Documents: Author Appearances divided by Documents.

  • Collaboration Index: Authors of multi-authored documents divided by multi-authored documents (= Documents - Single-authored documents).



Countries

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Most productive countries

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  • Freq: the ratio between the number of Documents and the total number of Documents associated to the distinct countries.

  • SCP: Single Country Publications.

  • MCP: Multiple Country Publications.

  • MCP_ratio: MCP divided by Documents.















Authors

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Productivity

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Relevance

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  • Local Cites index shows how many times an author included in our bibliographic collection have been cited in publications of the collection.









Articles

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  • TC: Total Citations.

  • TCperYear: Total Citations per Year.











  • LCS (Local citation Score): the count of citations to a paper within our bibliographic collection.
  • GCS( Global citation Score): the total number of citations to a paper in the Web of Science Core Collection.